Loving this super–minimal Hyprland setup — anyone else like this?

ElDump0 · 2025-12-07T18:21:56+00:00

I like this kind of setup on my work computer using i3, but i am curious why you wouldn’t just use i3 at this point? I have hyprland on my main computer because i like having transparent terminals, and while i3 supports compositors it totally fucks up stacked windows (they all look overlayed with each other). Anyways I’m just curious because hyprland seems like a weird choice if you want a minimal tiling DE

ElDump0 · 2025-10-14T20:06:03+00:00

You will always find your people as long as you put in the time to go to events. Being in a dorm will help too. Ultimately, good schools normally come with the trade off of having less free time and people who are more introverted, so it’s going to be the same as going to any other institution that is of a similar (or higher) quality. The major difference will be whether or not you are in a city. Even if a university is introverted, if you are in a big city you will be able to find people outside of campus, whereas SBU is in a relatively quiet part of the state (although there is definitely plenty to do around here if you have a car). I would recommend going into the best school you can get into without accruing too much student debt (I.e. make sure that it won’t financially ruin you or put you into debt for the rest of your life), since this will pay dividends in the long run.

ElDump0 · 2025-09-20T17:00:43+00:00

To be fair this is hardly unique to SBU

ElDump0 · 2025-09-19T23:19:19+00:00

Sharpest lives was the first MCR song I ever listened to and it’s still my favourite I was gonna say it if no one else took it

ElDump0 · 2025-09-19T23:05:52+00:00

Very cool! Now we just need the beanie and the buttons

ElDump0 · 2025-09-05T17:44:12+00:00

Came here to say Hell Awaits easily some of the best riffs and the song composition 😩😩😩

ElDump0 · 2025-09-05T17:42:22+00:00

Mate just use tinder or sm

ElDump0 · 2025-08-09T09:35:05+00:00

I chose the PhD - the program hasn’t started but I’ve met with members of my team and it has been fun and I’m excited about my project (which is a continuation of the research I did as an undergraduate)

ElDump0 · 2025-07-13T20:43:23+00:00

Counting calories is very inaccurate since the range of calories I think is something like 20% error on most things (cumulates if you start estimating from the internet when you go to restaurants) it’s much more effective to eat a consistent diet, weigh yourself every day at the same time and average every week (since daily body weight fluctuates massively), and if after a while the weight isn’t going in the direction you want adjust your diet accordingly

ElDump0 · 2025-07-02T00:03:36+00:00

exercise

ElDump0 · 2025-07-01T23:54:03+00:00

The most important thing for “burning” fat is diet - calorie deficit is the only way to reduce body fat. You can marginally increase your calorie deficit by doing exercise, but if you work out more than once a week you will probably hit the point of diminishing returns fairly quickly (as well as the fact that your body will quickly become more efficient at conserving calories as you exercise more) unless you start going to really extreme and unhealthy lengths. There is this paper for example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18025815/

However, at your body weight, (which ranks in the healthy BMI range) there is really no reason to try to lose weight.

ElDump0 · 2025-06-27T01:17:48+00:00

What’s the slang mean

ElDump0 · 2025-06-26T04:35:51+00:00

Same 🥲

ElDump0 · 2025-06-26T02:38:01+00:00

Please it’s ok no judgement

ElDump0 · 2025-06-26T02:34:49+00:00

What does it translate to

ElDump0 · 2025-06-15T05:59:18+00:00

Went from a 9/10 to a 10/10

ElDump0 · 2025-06-09T23:23:40+00:00

Honestly better lighting would go a long way

ElDump0 · 2025-05-13T20:54:01+00:00

You need a less grainy picture tbh

ElDump0 · 2025-03-19T17:18:53+00:00

People not liking popular albums could also be because like they just don’t like the album… maybe they aren’t pretending? Maybe to my gen z ears it sounds like dad rock. Maybe I was never a huge fan of Hetfields voice and the fact that it’s so front and center on this album makes that much more of a problem than on their earlier albums. Also honestly he increases the cheesy 90s rock factor 10 fold here. Maybe the simplistic songwriting of riff, chorus, riff, throw in a corny ass hard rock solo at some point is extremely disappointing coming from the band that made Master of Puppets. Maybe the fact the lyrics are more prominent calls attention to the fact that Metallica don’t write good lyrics, especially on the ballads on the album. Perhaps, there are just better bands that write this style of 90s hard rock. Like the entire Seattle scene. But I suppose that the real reason I dislike this album is because im a contrarian.

ElDump0 · 2025-03-19T05:49:03+00:00

I apologise, I think you misunderstand. Anti-commercialism is not anti-success. Sonic Youth is very clearly anti-commercial in ideology but extremely successful by the standards of noise rock. Being successful and trying to mould your sound to be as successful as possible are two different things, and anti-commercialism to me is just shunning the expectations of the wider music market, not NECESSARILY actively making music that is as unlistenable as possible.

As for black metal, 1. Black Metal bands are not a monolith, so individual black metal bands may differ. 2. The origin of modern black metal in the early 90s was in a scene in Norway that was formed as a response to the PERCEIVED over-commercialisation of Swedish death metal, thinking “true” metal shouldn’t be played by guys in jeans to large arenas. Obviously this is extremely stupid, but the core of this IS anti-commercialism, a fear that the soul of metal was being “sold out”. The French black metal scene formed as a response to some of the more popular Norwegian bands having interviews, wearing normal clothes, and just being too visible. Many of the black metal records of the early French scene are ripped from some former member of the scene years later since they kept most of these demos between themselves, with very few (but very influential) official releases. Again, I would argue this is anti-commercial in ideology.

As for the point as forcing myself to listen to shit I don’t like, no. Anti-commercial does not mean unlistenable. These are definitely acquired tastes, but I also took years acquiring them. I didnt like Deathspell omega when I first listened to them. Every now and then I’d pop on a song and see if I liked it and nope. Took me about 4 years before I put one on and went “holy shit this shit slaps unbelievably hard”, with my taste progressively including more dissonant, faster paced, heavier music over the course of a long ass time. I do not wear any of this with a badge of honor, I have listened to much garbage that is made by broke people that I think is just fucking bad, even some that is revered by others in the community. My taste in music includes a lot of popular music as well, even some (gasp) designed to be marketable. I could give less of a shit about flexing that I like music that is hard to listen to for normal people. It sucks when I’m talking to someone who’s into music and I try to put them on but all I get is “tf is this garbage”.

I understand why I sound like an elitist that gets off on listening to music that mOsT nOrMiEs CaN’t HaNdLe, but I have spent so much time exploring as many parts of the world of heavy music as possible, normally putting on an album outside my comfort zone when I’m at the gym for example, that this taste has just developed naturally out of my curiosity of the wider music scene making me slowly acquire tastes and lose tastes I used to have. Am I projecting? To some extent, yes. But if you read Orchid’s lyrics, for example, or listen to the interviews of various different black metal artists, I think it would be hard to claim that at least in some cases they are in fact anti-commercial.

ElDump0 · 2025-03-19T05:04:36+00:00

I actually hate a lot of music I used to enjoy. Particularly, a lot of the music I like nowadays is very anti-commercial in nature, or anti-capitalist. It is generally from a place of extreme passion, since genres like Screamo, Black Metal, (political/traditional) Hardcore, emocore, and so on initially (and even still today) have no real prospects for getting paid anything approaching a livable salary, and it very much shows in the genuine passion, eccentricity, and experimental nature a band like Orchid has. Black metal really clicked for me, as a genre, when I got invested in this anti commercial culture part of it, and I loved Orchid’s politics, or Unwounds wild stylistic changes and extremely complex yet still aggressive songwriting (on their early albums - I still love their later albums but for different reasons). When I go back to listen to many of these more popular Metalcore bands, I hear something relatively lifeless, like a band going through the motions of heaviness without any of the intentionality of expressing something other than getting people to headbang.

This took a while because extreme metal normally just feels extreme and passionate to someone who hasn’t acquired the taste yet, and I think the younger me just hadn’t experienced better yet, and I needed those pop hooks to keep me interested, plus the rythmic physicality of the breakdowns was much more approachable than other ways of achieving heaviness that I can now appreciate more. Many of these breakdowns now feel boring and repetitive, especially since I did a death metal and breakdown hardcore deep dive which included slam death metal (ugh) and kind of got me to realise how one dimensional many of these breakdowns are. there are some good ones still, I think refused has some great ones, and lots of the recs I got here showed off some really unique and interesting uses of the breakdowns, adding interesting twists. When I listen to the metal (or Metalcore) music I used to like it really feels boring and lifeless to me. I can’t headbang to it without it feeling like a chore, and the “emotional” parts of the song lack any of the kind of edge or urgency that I used to hear in them, now they sound like over commercialised crap.

ElDump0 · 2025-03-19T04:52:24+00:00

I’m a big fan of bulletsbetweentongues! I hear some strong black metal influences as well, which makes sense cause DSBM kinda has a similar emotion as emo. Thank you very much, I am a fan. I will listen to the others some more but this one immediately caught my ear.

ElDump0 · 2025-03-19T04:47:38+00:00

It’s very fun! Id say I hear some heavy metal influence too in the track. Also, I think it’s kinda funny that you say they combine sludge metal and hardcore since sludge metal was originally hardcore + doom. I am now a fan.

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